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was to be found in the herbarium of Lamarck. From the character, 

 one may perhaps assume its identity with the later homonym of Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. 



A. viMiNEUS. The A. Tradescanti and xai-./ragilis of Torr. and 

 Gray, Flora. A name to be employed. 



A. LONGiFOLius. A form of the ^. yi^MCCHS, Ait., and A. salicifo- 

 liiis, Richardson ; a northern species, for which this, the oldest name, 

 must be employed. 



A. L^viGATUS. The A. mutabilis of Alton, common in European 

 gardens under the name of A. briwialis, Nees. It was well compared 

 by Lamarck with A. Icevis, and as differing by its more simple or not 

 imbricated involucre. Unequivocal indigenous specimens are hardly 

 known ; they are to be sought in Lower Canada and Nova Scotia. 



A. nisriDUS. By the character clearly A. puniceus, L., to which 

 it has been referred. 



A. PATULUS. The species still cultivated under this name, native 

 of Canada, &c., a low form of which is A. tardijlorus, L. 



A. MISER, Lam. (not L.), is the A. purpuratus of Nees, A. virga- 

 tus, Ell. 



III. Species of Walter, Flora Caroliniana, 1788. 



A. Carolinianus. ) ttt n i • * i u ht- i, 



> vVell-known species, taken up by Michaux. 



A. SQUARROSUS. ) 



A. CILIATUS is quite unknown. 



IV. Species founded {by Solander) in Aiton, Horius Kewensis, 1789. 



A. NEMORALis. The well-known species. 



A. UMBELLATUS. Credited to Mill. Dict. (1759), therefore much 

 earlier than A. amygdalinus, Lam. The indigenous s[)ecimen from 

 Nova Scotia is of a broad-leaved form, while those of Hort. Chelsea 

 (Miller's) and of Hort. Kew. are narrower-leaved. 



A. PALUDOSTTS. Type of the section Heleastrvm. 



A. PATENS. Specimens from Miller, and from New York, Ander- 

 son. But the specimen collected by Bartram in East Florida is A. 

 Carolinianus. 



A. FOLIOLOSUS. A state of A. vimineus. Lam., verging to A. du^ 

 mosiis, L. The jilant of Dill. Elth., on the figure of which Linna?ns 

 founded A. miser (vide supra), is referred here. Solander must have 

 seen the specimen in the Sherardian herbarium ; otherwise he could 

 hardly have made it out. 



